River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-25
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Iron has been struck in Darlington.

II.
Children to the number of :, 1868 at
tend school at Green Bay.
The Wisconsin Central will build a
line from Wausau to Amigo.
The next state funniest will be held
in Monroe in August. 1888.
The state pharmaceutical association
will hold its next annual meeting in
PALMYRA.
At Ashland, so feet front of unim-
proved real estate sold for $500 a foot
$50. 900.
Shell Lake people ship milk to Du-
luth. Mimi, every night. and receive
10 cents per quart for il.
About $50. 900 represents the value
of the permanent building improve
ments in Racine this year.
Boaz, Richland county, has organ
lied vigilance committee that viii
summarily deal with criminals.
Clayton x Valentine, of Monroe.
shipped 500 cattle Tuesday to Hamil-
ton county, Nebraska, to feed.
Bloomer claims to have the largest
Good remplar's lodgein the state 1t
numbers lS2 members in good stand
ing.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Indus
trial association will hold its fair at
Mineral Point, Sept. 6, z, 8, and 9,
1887.
1t IS reported that a cave rich with
lead has been discovered near Shulls-
burg, Grant County. 1t is believed to
contain a fortune.
Captain Winn, of Mineral Point, is
the owner of an English Beagle hound
with ears measuring nineteen inches
inches from base to tip.
Morris Wright, who stabbed John
Pletzer at Thrope, few weeks ago, es-
capped from the Clark county Jail
and has not yet been captured.
The West Wisconsin conference of
/ the Methodist church will be held at
I Mineral Point, commencing September
% Bishop Fowler will preside.
One of the balloons sent up from
/ Viroqua on the Fourth was recently
found in a grain field % miles distant,
in the town of Union. Vernon county.
A young man named MILFORD John
son, of the town of Lima, Grant county,
was gored in the neck by a mad bull
and injured so badly that he died in
| two hours.
Prof. l., 5. Hulhurt, of Darlington,
has received the appointment as profess
sor of mathematics III the university of
/ Dakota, which is located in Vermillion,
near YanktOn.
Sam West, of Sylvester. lost a stall
lion valued at $4,000. only few days
/ hgo. The horse died from complica-
ton of rheumatism and kidney disease.
He was the finest draft stallion in Green
county
1t is said that lots can be bought at
| Tomahawk now for 800 or less. There
seems to be quite decline in the price
of real estate at that place. as options
on the same lots were sold at $500 about
q month ago.
At Waukesha, Thursday, Jeweler G.
A. Estberg was frightfullv burned by
the explosion of an alcohol lamp. and
a 4-year-old son of a farmer fell into
well twenty-seven feet deep, but
escaped uninjured.
A woman tramp with three daugh-
tiers. aged respectively 10, Is and
years, passed through Prairie du Chen
Sunday morning.en route for Savanna,
H., claiming to have walked the en-
tire distance from Winona, MINI.
Three barrels of beer. containing
| seventy-two bottles each, in transit
from La Crosse to Alden. Iowa. and
consigned to Ii. J. David & Co, were
seized by officers in the Minnesota "
St. Louis freight house at Fort Dodge.
Iowa, last Saturday. 1t was labeled
ginger ale.
A relic of the time of old Fort Craw-
ford consisting of a 20 pound ball and
several links of chain attached. was
found imbedded in the road about $50
wards north of the old Fort site at
Prairie du Chen. 1t has probably laid
there for 40 or 80 years, and no doubt
had been used to punish refractory
soldiers.
j. S. Trip, of Sank county, says
| that the farmers in the vicinity of Prairie
/ du Sac are feeling severely the effects
of the drouth. He estimates that up
wards of $4,000 will be paid out for
| feed this season, one farmer alone hav-
ing already expended $1,000 for that
purpose; there are few. he says, who
will not purchase from 500 to $500
worth.
Mai William J. Dawes died at Mil
waukee of nervous disease which had
been slowly breaking him down for
several years. Maj. Dawes was sixty
years of age. He enlisted with the
Eighth Wisconsin as a captain of a
Dodge county company. He was
transferred TO the veteran relief corps
in October. 1861, and at the close of
the war was transferred to the regular
veteran reserve as first lieutenant. serv-
ing during the reconstruction period in
several Southern cities, retired v it'll rank
of brevet major, and returned to the
practice of law at his old place, Fox
Lake. Ten years ago he moved to Mil
waukee. He was a prominent member
of Plymouth church. and member of
the Loyal Legion. He leaves a wife
and two sons. the oldest of whom is an
ex-governor of Nevada.